Displacing coal with wood for power generation will worsen climate change say MIT, UMass Lowell and Climate Interactive researchers New research challenges European Union policy that wood bioenergy is carbon neutral Cambridge, Mass., January 16, 2018 – Wood is increasingly being used to replace coal as a source of electricity generation in […]

Jasmine Lee and Adam Pearce of The New York Times created a digital story, “How Trump Can Influence Climate Change,” exploring what actions were intended to deliver upon the Paris pledge of the U.S., what actions could be lost, and where the U.S. fits globally. We provide the following notes on the various data sources behind the […]

How might the new U.S. EPA pollution rules ripple out to affect global action that reduces future climate risk? We were happy when Eli Kintisch of Science asked Dr. Lori Siegel and me here at Climate Interactive to use C-ROADS to answer this question in their article, “A Bold Baby Step On Emissions.” The graphic in Science is […]

The current edition of the journal System Dynamics Review, features an article by our team here at Climate Interactive on our simulation C-ROADS. With over 700 users worldwide and counting, C-ROADS has improved the understanding of which national climate commitments will have an impact and what is needed for us to close the gap between maintaining […]

In response to the needs of our users, Climate Interactive has updated the C-ROADS climate policy testing software with a suite of new features and analytic abilities. In this one-hour webinar, three model developers and analysts from the Climate Interactive team will introduce the new features, from new output windows, to sensitivity testing, to more […]

Check out this short video to view the new features of C-ROADS. The top five improvements: 1. Choose from 14 different reference scenarios, pulled from EMF and SRES 2. Create emissions scenarios by changing Carbon intensity 3. Land use emissions are disaggregated by country (thanks to primary research funded by Heinz Center and TCG) 4. […]

The collaboration of the C-ROADS team with Chinese climate analysts at Tsinghua University is growing via a university partnership. At the recent UN conference in Copenhagen, Drew Jones of Sustainability Institute met with Professor He Jiankun of Tsinghua University (shown in the photo) to discuss extending and customizing the C-ROADS simulation to better match the […]

On Wednesday, here at COP15 in Copenhagen, the Climate Interactive team and partners presented the C-ROADS simulation and the Climate Scoreboard at the Bellona Room in the Bella Center to demonstrate our tools to support the negotiations. Watch a video of the presentation here.

We hope to see many of you in Copenhagen! If you will be in Copenhagen, look for members of our extended team using C-ROADS and sharing the Climate Scoreboard: Drew Jones (SI), Beth Sawin (SI), John Sterman (MIT), Lori Siegel (SI), Tom Fiddaman (Ventana Systems), Bob Corell (CAI), and Travis Franck (Tufts). And please join […]

Professor David Peart and Dr. Lori Siegel led a powerful learning experience for Dartmouth College students using the C-ROADS simulator as part of the Copenhagen Climate Exercise (now World Climate) The College created an engaging video on the experience — check it out above. And their press release is here. Sustainability issues and our team’s […]